• Publication: Five Weeks in a BalloonPublication Record # 673272
• Author: Jules Verne
• Date: 1877-00-00
• Publisher: Goubaud
• Price:
  -/9^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes: Taken from the Jules Verne Encyclopedia - by Brian Taves and Stephen Michaluk, Jr.

  • Title, author, date, publisher, format, price
  • "Around 1877, Goubaud & Son of London published Five Weeks in a Balloon in The Jules Verne Library "as the Daisy Books" in handsome colored wrappers, price 9d"
  • "This work was advertised as one of Verne's "Wonder Books" of which more were to be published shortly."

  The text match to the translation text is from Arthur B. Evans Bibliography of Jules Verne's English Translations at jv.gilead.org.il. There are references to Goubaud, Goubaud & Son and Goubaud & Fils. The publisher should be updated once a copy is examined.

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• Five Weeks in a Balloon • [Voyages extraordinaires • 1] • novel by Jules Verne (trans. of Cinq semaines en ballon 1863)